Low Fat Diets - Why Are We Still Fat

It seems that these days, there’s a low fat and no fat version of everything. There are low fat cookies, cakes, ice cream, yogurt and even low fat pizza. What has the world come to; is nothing sacred? These foods have been around for years, yet Americans are getting fatter all the time. Why is this?

The answer is actually very simple. It’s because there is no direct relationship between fat calories eaten and fat tissue on a person’s body. The human body is perfectly capable of converting any type of calorie into fat, not just fat calories. If you decided to eat just a one pound bag of sugar every day for a week, you would be very fat, and you would have become fat while on a low fat diet. The sugars in these low fat diets are still making people fat. They’re eating more sugar than their bodies can get rid of and so the excess sugars are being stored as fat.

Did you know that the body actually needs fat? It’s true. In fact, dietary fats are essential for cell growth and to give your body energy. Fats help with the absorption of nutrients and help your body produce important hormones.

What’s the solution?
The solution is a calorie shifting diet. The calorie shifting diet works by manipulating protein calories and carb calories. Also, with the calorie shifting diet, you’ll never have to starve yourself to lose weight, because there are no portion limits. You choose as many of the foods listed for that meal that you want and eat until you’re almost full. You don’t want to stuff yourself, because that means you’ve eaten too much and you body will store the extra calories as fat. You’ll be eating 4 times a day, so you’ll be eating smaller, more frequent meals, so your body will release fat burning hormones and your metabolism will keep burning fat throughout the day.

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